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Lea Bonheim's avatar

It sounds like anarchism's time has come. I say that hopefully.

Troy Richard Wiley's avatar

Finally…after 10,000 years of dominator hierarchies. 🤦😀

The Mind Awakened's avatar

In my view, anarchy/voluntaryism can only become the self-evident aftermath of domination reaching saturation levels.

Yanolapin's avatar

depending on how we define things, the mutation may not discard market, money and ownership ; only redefine them in a way that is aligned with a society caring for life to thrive in all, instead of focusing on personal or tribal / national securiy and gain ?

What would market 2.0, money 2.0 and ownership 2.0 look like, for a society in which a critical mass of its influencial members would genuinely care for all forms of living entities, seeing themselves as universal gardeners of the living miracle ?

Market 2.0 becomes a coordination system for life (re)generation, not extraction — value flows toward what makes ecosystems, bodies, souls and communities more alive, beautiful and meaningful.

Money 2.0 becomes a signal of care delivered, not power accumulated — a tracking tool for who is contributing to the flourishing of life, human and non-human alike.

Ownership 2.0 shifts from “the right to exclude and exploit” to “the dignity to steward” — you don’t own things to simply use them, you make sure that by doing so they serve at its best the web of life.

Same tools. New story. From consumers and competitors → to gardeners and guardians.

Troy Richard Wiley's avatar

Thanks for the comment, but sorry, there will not be a market 2.0, money 2.0 and ownership 2.0 if humanity is to NOT go instinct. Inherently within MMO is SCIM (scarcity, competition, misaligned incentives) which will forever prevent the emergence of any 2.0.

We need a "Paradigm 2.0" built on Post-MMO and ACAI (abundance, cooperation, aligned incentives). Please check out my latest chapter on the need to hospice the current paradigm, including the soft death of any so-called "conscious capitalism".

I am familiar with all the "regenerative" buzzwords like stewardship, value flows, wellbeing for all, permaculture, etc., but we cannot have those nice things when we attempt to embed them within inherently degenerative bio-phsycho-social systems.

The new story I am writing is how we transition to a truly regenerative operating system, but that means letting go of--hospicing--the old.

Appreciate the discussion.

Troy Richard Wiley's avatar

From Daniel Schmachtenberger:

"The long term solution, if humanity is to keep existing, it will not have a thing called money and capital. It will not have an idea that qualitative value can get turned into quantitative value, and that all different quantified metrics can be made fungible, incommensurable into a single value metric (money) that has intrinsic exponentiation built into it. If those concepts don’t go, I bet everything that I know that humanity goes extinct.

"So money as a system has to go…It intrinsically has power asymmetry's built in; it is an intrinsically fucked technology. It is not in itself benign. You can’t do good things without depending on supply chains that do lots of bad things. And if you grow those things, you grow the other things. That’s implicit to the structure. Anybody who is stewarding capital, if they don’t understand this they will not be a good steward of capital."

Dawn Kimble's avatar

The laws enforced (or eliminated) or institutions defunded by the Trump administration are accelerating the pollution and heating of the planet and increasing the extreme income and asset inequality among the people. It seems strange that, while we're in an insane system, no one seems able to do a thing about it.

Troy Richard Wiley's avatar

Yes, there are many cascading effects of whats happening with Trump. It seems climate change has become a back burner issue. Which is good, because we need to focus on the root cause. Even Trump is a symptom. And I always ask, why can we not do anything about climate change. Why are we not able to do anything about Trump. Thanks Dawn.

The Mind Awakened's avatar

The world is racing to the bottom, and cannot be stopped.

Troy Richard Wiley's avatar

I agree as long as we continue to hold onto this old paradigm.

Troy Richard Wiley's avatar

If this line of inquiry resonates, feel free to reach out. I’m listening.